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vocabulary for chapter 5

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What is demography?   The statistical study of human populations  
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What is population density?   The average number of people living in a specific area  
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What is the number of births each year for every 1,000 people living in an area?   birth rate  
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What is the number of deaths each year for every 1,000 people living in an area?   death rate  
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What is the movement from one place to another?   migration  
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Who are the people who leave a country to live somewhere else?   emigrants  
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Who are the people who come to a new country?   immigrants  
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What are push factors?   the factors that cause people to leave a location  
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What are pull factors?   the factors that attracts people to a location  
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What are people who are forced to leave their homes and cannot return?   refugees  
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What is culture?   all the features of a people's way of life  
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What are culture traits?   The activities and behaviour people often take part in  
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What is a culture region?   An area in which people have many shared culture traits  
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What is an ethnic group?   a human population that shares a common culture or ancestry  
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What is Acculturation   when an individual or group adopts some of the traits of another culture  
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What is Assimilation   when an individual or group adopts all the traits of another culture  
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What happens when an innovation or idea spreads from one person or group to another and is adopted?   Diffusion  
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What is globalization?   The collaboration between countries  
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What is the adherence to the doctrines of a specific tradition?   Traditionalism  
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what is fundamentalism?   strict adherence to a set of ideas or specific principles  
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What is dialect?   Geographical or social variety of speech  
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What is lingua franca?   A language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a mother language  
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What is Animist religion?   A religion that believes there is no separation between the spiritual and human world, via natural world  
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What is a religion that consists of multiple gods   Polytheism  
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What is a universalizing religion?   a religion that attempts to operate on a global scale and appeal to all people  
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What is monotheism?   A religion that believes in one God or the oneness of a God  
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What is a member of a religious group sent into an area to do evangelism or ministries of service   A missionary  
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Where do Muslim people go to church?   A mosque  
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What is the Hajj?   The journey to Mecca Muslims must go on at least once in their lifetime.  
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